George Delahunty

Delahunty was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Duquesne University in 1974 and completed his doctorate in physiology and endocrinology at Marquette University in 1979.[1][2] Under doctoral advisor Victor de Vlaming, Delahunty completed his dissertation entitled Environmental Effects on the Metabolism of Carassius Auratus: Role of the Pineal Organ and Retinal Pathways. He received a fellowship from the Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation for his final year of graduate school.[3]

Delahunty was a guest worker at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in the diabetes branch. At Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, he worked as a visiting associate professor. He later trained in metabolomics at the University of California, Davis.[2]

He joined the faculty at Goucher College in 1979 as a professor of biology.[1] His research focused on metabolism and endocrine control in vertebrates.[2] In 1996, Delahunty was the principal investigator of a $17,249 grant from the National Science Foundation to facilitate computerized data acquisition to conduct physiology research using an experimental approach.[4] He was a co-founder[5] of the postbaccalaureate premedical program at Goucher College.[6] He was the Goucher representative of the Master's of Public Health transfer program between Goucher College and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.[7] In May 2018, Delahunty retired from Goucher.[8]

Delahunty is a member of the American Society of Zoologists, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Endocrine Society.[1]

Delahunty met his second wife Katherine Henneberger, an economics professor while they both were teaching at Goucher College.[3][9] They married circa 1990. Delahunty resides in Owings Mills, Maryland. Henneberger died in September 2006 due to lung cancer.[9]